Tone Of Xiv By Derek Walcott

In the story a young boy decides to go hunting in the night and goes through a revelation as he witnesses an everyday act of the battle between light and darkness as the sun rises. Although set in a different place and time, both authors express a common universal theme: life is a constant battle between light and darkness in our everyday lives. This theme can be seen through a compare and contrast of powerful symbols, transforming settings and misguided characters.

William Saroyan uses many literary devices such as symbolism and characterization throughout his short story, “Gaston”. He uses them to convey that parents have an influence on their children, who look up to them. He includes many details in each instance of the literary devices, to expand on the theme he is trying to convey.

Few relationships are as deep as those between child and parent. While circumstance and biology can shape the exact nature of the bond, a child’s caretaker is the first to introduce them to the world. And as they grow and begin to branch out, children look to their parents as a model for how to interact with the various new situations. Through allusion, potent imagery, and nostalgic diction, Natasha Trethewey constructs an idolized image of a father guiding their child through life’s challenges only to convey the speaker’s despair when they are faced with their father’s mortality in “Mythmaker.”

Throughout the story Baldwin illustrates that darkness is approaching when he says, “And when light fills the room, the child is filled with darkness. He knows that every time this happens he's moved just a little closer to that darkness outside”(7). The darkness and light Baldwin describes works as cycle, similar to night and day, after light comes darkness and after darkness comes light. The pattern of darkness and light is painted to symbolize the cycle of suffering and salvation, showing without one the other cannot exist. It is how to achieve this balance of light and dark that the narrator struggles with throughout the story. The narrator witnesses many instances of darkness, when his daughter died he wrote, “I was sitting in the living-room in the dark, by myself, and I suddenly thought of Sonny. My trouble made his real”(14). This instance of darkness the narrator depicts shows that suffering hold a present everywhere, it’s universal, and people can cope with their suffering though relating to one another. Furthermore, the recurring idea of darkness throughout the story shows that suffering will always exist and it is a vital part of the human experience. However, one can find the light, escaping the darkness for a moment, through relating to one another and showing compassion. In essence, the symbols light and darkness are used to develop Baldwins theme that suffering is

The changing light symbolizes the Youngers’ hope of achieving their dreams, which changes as they face various obstacles. The challenges faced by the Youngers illustrate the theme of struggling to achieve one’s dream even against incessant difficulties. In the end, the Younger family learned that one must simply maintain hope and keep working to overcome the inevitable obstacles in life. Everyone at some point has experienced something that has held them back from reaching their goal, but hope must never be lost, because hope is what drives one to keep pursuing a dream against the

Whenever the light is mentioned in the story there is always darkness to go hand in hand with it. The light equals to positive relief whereas the darkness exemplifies the dread and misery that always threatens to extinguish those encouraging things. These references to the light and darkness give the reader a sense of the mood and tone of the story. These symbols make the story an important part of

The great comparison, somewhat of a conceit, only serves to show the complete infatuation of young love. The girl warms the boy, brightens his day, and thus she is his sun. But the contrast between the bleary winter day and the light the girl represents serves as commentary of how love lights up our bleak world. Young love is what transforms this poem from a mere retelling of a winter day to a retelling of a fond memory of a girl. Love is what brightens the world, what transforms it from a cold and lonely winter day into a beautiful story, and the innocence of young love opens ones eyes to the innocence of love in the face of the cruelty of the world. Love is an infatuation, a prize, an experience, and it keeps us warm even on the coldest of days. Love warms us in the way a winter jacket could not, and it makes us feel as if we have a fire, not in our hands like the speaker, but in our

The narrator becomes melancholy throughout the poem which results in the dark becoming the only source of guidance and comfort. In both these poems, darkness is conveyed to be a negative influence of one’s

In this poem, the author illustrates how the light on a subject can change its mood and meaning to us. But also how the situation creates the mood of the light. She does this by experimenting with the words she uses to describe each scene. With the words she chooses there is also an accompanying pre-determined meaning we give to the words.

Light only appears when his friend’s sister, who he is infatuated with, enters the story. Around her there is an air of hope. When the boy is around her the atmosphere is joyful and bright. Every morning he waits to walk to school until she leaves her house. He does not walk with her.

Since night as another meaning in this poem, it makes it a metaphor. Night stands of darkness, which can be interpreted as sadness, depression, suffering, or despair. The speaker is acquainted with the feelings of melancholy because loneliness is expressed throughout the poem. Symbolism creates the feel of distance. The speaker has “outwalked the furthest city lights” and heard a cry “ far away”. The luminary clock is“ further still at an unearthly height”. By the narrator saying this tells use the the luminary clock is the moon, which still is a great distance for one's reach. The watchman is the symbol of judgement. The speaker feels some sort of guilt upon passing the watchman, and the speaker “dropped his eyes unwilling to explain”. All of the symbols within the poem is example of alienation. The speaker is using personification to reflect the speaker's feelings. For example the speaker looked down the “ saddest city lanes” and the moon “proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right”. A moon can not proclaim

The characters are described as enduring their day to day life, which suggests an uncomfortable presence within their lives. The tone supports the overarching theme of fear. As the poem begins, the child comforts the dog from the clamorous

A) What makes these stories both potent and timeless, is their ability to illustrate moral truths and life lessons, such as vanity, overcoming obstacles in life, spiritual growth, and values, through the use of metaphors. In doing so, these stories enable people to learn a thing or two about themselves, such as aspirations and trepidation's. These stories have become successful at staying vivacious, despite times progression and the growth of diverse societies, by virtue of those retelling these primordial tales.

Throughout this poem he uses imagery, metaphors, symbolic meaning and other figurative language of his perspective as an adult going through childhood memory with his father. The setting in this poem is based on a memory in an autumn day outside the porch with his father while he speaks to his young child who can barely understand the meanings and expressions he has as an adult. The title of the poem gives a theme named after a character or event in the event which also proves a symbolized image of a traditional insight or achievement of wisdom. However, it is told that this may or may not be an actual event, but an idea of fatherhood or point reasons being expressed or an emotional or spiritual exhaustion in this short poem (Ruby and Milne

The poem evokes calming, night time winding down images to me by the line “The twilight darkens” which I see as night fall.